Mexico Displays Increasing Influence on US Immigration Policy

After announcing the deployment of 1200 National Guard troops to the southern border, the State Department issued a statement that the troops will not be used to stem illegal immigration from Mexico. The statement followed a diplomatic conversation with Mexican officials, who urged the US to not enforce the border. Instead the troops will be used to stop the transport of drugs across the border, ignoring the fact that cartel workers are more often than not “illegal” aliens.

After soaring past Mexico economically and militarily for the past 200 years, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is allowing US sovereignty be challenged by our neighbors to the south. Allowing a foreign government to dictate the flow of their citizens into our country sends a clear message, that the boundaries to the geographic US are at risk.